Can that be true?

Originally posted by DeepThought
It depends, they shouldn't do it over every tackle, but getting decisions within the penalty box right is critical.

Yes but you have Luddites who are opposed to the introduction of technology, flip sake it only took several decades for goal line technology. Critical decisions should be referred to a panel of officials with instant replay video footage. There is not a valid reason not to introduce it as it has been incorporatd in rugby and cricket successfully and actually adds to the suspence. The absolute disgraceful way that games are being decided on ludicrous officiating errors and blatant diving makes it imperative to introduce it.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
How is soccer more of a 'sissy', sport than basketball? Do explain.

Soccer is not just for sissies. They could be gay as well.

Originally posted by whodey
Soccer is not just for sissies. They could be gay as well.

if you are not gay I bet you have thought about it.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Indeed and its quite absurd. Clearly Eladar is simply regurgitating some piece of propaganda. If he observed the recent spate of games he would have realised that a number of players were taken from the field of play by paramedics on a stretcher. A much more rational objection would be the propensity for diving and the horrendous decisions made by ...[text shortened]... decision to the spectators. The argument that video review would slow soccer down is nonsense.

I find it particularly odd that theatrics aren't punished after the fact even if they are missed by the referee. Why not suspend players for, say, a year or two?

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
I find it particularly odd that theatrics aren't punished after the fact even if they are missed by the referee. Why not suspend players for, say, a year or two?

or ban them for life or hang them yes bring back capital punishment.

Originally posted by Ponderable
I found this:

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-06-25.html

and the Lady managed to enrage me with her mindless babble so much that I create a thread in Debates.

Is it really true that football (the kind played with the foot and a ball actaully) is for sissies?
Is it true that for a sport to be real people have to be injured?
Is it true that no American whose great-grandfather was born in the US is watching football?

Were you enraged when George Carlin declared that soccer wasn't a sport?

Originally posted by techsouth
Were you enraged when George Carlin declared that soccer wasn't a sport?

who the fracking hell is george carcrash

Originally posted by redbadger
who the fracking hell is george carcrash

A well known comedian.

YouTube

...starting at around 3:00 he begins specifying what is and is not a sport. Sorry about the profanity.

Originally posted by techsouth
A well known comedian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_oOLQi5-is

...starting at around 3:00 he begins specifying what is and is not a sport. Sorry about the profanity.

never heard of him